News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-17
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
CURIOUS HAPPENINGS THAT WE
FIND RECORDED.
A Lottery SwindIe-Wi HOrses--The Boy
and the Bear-A FOrtune-H hat Splin
ter Did, ETC., Etc.

manufacture, import, or sell any plsto
Of less than "A calibre. His reason fol-
introducing this bill is that man hit
| with bullet from a A calibre pisto
will generally die before he has chance
to shoot back. The result will be an
obvious saving of human life. More
over, A calibre pistol is SO big that 1t
can't be worn concealed in the hip
pocket, or any other pocket.
A CALIFORNIA editor thinks that re
publics are ungrateful, and, apparently,
he has reason. He says: 1--WE wrote up
a whole paper of able articles about
San Benito county-left nothing to write
about-printed so, 900 copies, lost $275
on the venture, knocked down a dirty,
| lying dog before we could collect hat
we did get, broke our fist on the scoun-
drelly ours teeth, got blood poisoning,
| had three doctors waiting on US, and
didn't get out of bed for three months. "
On Jekyl Island, Georgia, is band
of horses so wild that they run at the
sight of man. William Turner, who has
charge of club house on the island,
says that the other morning one of these
| horses came to the barn, apparently in
great pain, allowed herself to be battered
and showed unmistakable signs of graf
itude when Turner doctored her and
gave her relief. Usually these horses
are very stubborn and vicious, and near
ly die of starvation before they will
yield to man.
THE superstition TSat to carry a rab
bits foot in ones pocket will surely
bring good luck is widespread in the
South, among whites as well as blacks.
The other day III Louisville an offender
was brought before a police magistrate
charged with drunkenness and disorder
ly conduct, and was asked Why he got
drunk. He replied that few days
since he had lost his rabbit foot, and
since that time hs had met with series
of unlucky incidents, which eliminated
in big spree.
THE country negroes In the South are
beginning to complain that the city ne
groes are too much given to visiting.
Recently a Covington darby, who pre-
tends to practise law, went to a neigh
boring settlement for a vacation. For
some time his hosts treated him royalty,
but finally became annoyed at his long
stay, and one night took VIII ps and
sticks and went to the house where he
was stopping, and invited him to skip
He skipped, aided now and then by
timber switch.
TRAINS on the Northern Pacific Rail
road were recently detained between
Willows and Alkali, Oregon, by sand
storm. The wind blew so hard that the
locomotive headlight and lights in Ian
terms carried by the train hands were
extinguished, and sand drifted upon the
tracks faster than it could be shovelled
off The only way the trains were got
through was by shovelling the sand
from the track and pushing ahead foot
by foot, the sand closing in behind the
cars as fast as they were moved on.
IT was thrifty urchin, albeit of ten
der years, who fell down on the icy
sidewalk and cut slight cash in his
tough little palm the other day. Some
kindly passers-by stopped to bind up his
hand and offer the little fellow consola-
ton. A gentleman gave him dime,
and when the lady who wound her
handkerchief around the injured hand
asked him if he did not feel pretty
comfortable, he replied with astonishing
candor: "Yes'm, as comfortable as a
Teller can fur ten cents" That boy had
a sense of values.
A PARIS correspondent telegraphs:
SIN 1916 Frenchman named Thery de-
posted 50, 900, 900 in the Bank of Venice
and then died. sIore than a century
passed, when Bonaparte was ordered by
the Directory to demand the principal
and interest for the benefit of French
subjects. They were paid to him, and
he appropriated them 70 military uses.
The State therefore became the debtor
of the Thery family. Authentic heirs
Of the depositor of the So, 900, 900 exist
That sum, with legal interest, now
comes to 1926, 900, OO0"
A LITTLE village of less than 1000 in
habitants, On the coast of Maine, was
once selected as the home of a man who
had drawn big prize in lottery. 1t
that the tale, as published in
the papers, fell under the eye of a New
York newspaper man who was a native
Of the village, and who made inquiries
at home only to find that there was ''no
SIGH person in the place, never had
been, and that the whole story was APP
parently an advertising dodge. Honest |
people will attend to Legitimate business |
and let the lotteries severely alone.
A YOUNG man of Harvey Station, N.
B., out shooting, came upon bear cub,
which he captured and started to carry
nome. But its cries brought its mother,
who soon overlook the hunter and |
grabbed him in her strong arms. AS
she began to squeeze he pricked the |
cub, which cried, and at that the mother
Dear relaxed her hold. The hunter ran,
he bear caught him again, and he re
,eated the trick with success. So they
Kept it up until the man overlook
team and the old bear gave
up the chase and went off, leaving her
cub to its captor.
DAN REILLY, an Indian Territory
miner, while crossing a mountain re-
ently, was caught in a snow slide and
arried over mile into a pass. The
orce of the snow was so great that
much timber was also carried down
This saved his life, for when carried
nto the pass, which is a deep chasm,
he limbs and broken timber were
brown across it in such manner as to
orm a complete arch, thus keeping the
Weight of the snow from crushing him,
'ut leaving him completely entombed.
The buried miner at once set to work to
ig himself out, a task which he COM
,leted after four hours hard work. He
vas uninjured.
In his will the late Gen. Durbin Ward
ave to his niece Ella Ward the Jewell
sword which had been present.
d to him by the prisates of his old reg
ment He enjoins her that she shall
deliver it to her eldest son, should she
yer be blessed with one, and If he
hould die, to the next oldest in success
ion, and with it the charge never to
raw it in bad cause, and to never
cave it sheathed should a good enc re-
uire its aid, and command him also to
end it down to posterity to the eldest
on in the direct line so long as any
Yard blood can WELD a sword, until
nat blessed time shall come when ali
words shall be beaten into plough
hares."
NECESSITY is the IN ther of large
rood of inventions in Prohibition I
Taine, particularly among those to
HON strong drink is a necessity. One
Ich recently asked Lisbon druggist to )
I'll him some ale hol for his sore finger.
ne druggist would not. ''Won't you
our some on my finger, then2" asked i
,e man. The druggist said that he t
,ould, and took hold of the finger, {
.hich was completely hidden in band '
ges of cloth. 1t yielded to his touch,
nd he pulled at If, the bandage came |
#, and revealed the fact that the finger t
as badly bogus, being made up of a